American Airlines Plane Crash: Kansas legislators are committed to finding answers

The entire Kansas Congress Delegation is committing to finding answers to families who regret their loved ones after the death of a Wichita flight in Washington DC, which officials have said they had no survivor.

A Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines PSA commercial aircraft at times from Ronald Ronald Reagan National Airport Wednesday night, temporarily stopping all flights inside and outside the small airport But critical.

“Our prayers are with the families and friends of those affected by the tragic plane crash that took place in the capital of our nation. South of the center of Kansas is a close community and it is likely that many of us know directly Or indirectly the people who were on the flight 5342 January 29, “said the joint written declaration of the legislators.

The video show DC Plane Crash involving the American Airlines flight, Black Hawk Helicopter

“This is a sad day for the Kansans and our nation, and this community, which is in the history of aviation and manufacture, will feel the pain of this catastrophe in the coming years. We appreciate the first ones who respond and respond The rescue crew they worked at night.

“Our focus is now to support family and friends who died, including crew and military staff, and then get answers for people who have lost a loved “.

It was signed by GOP Kansas Senators, Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran, as well as representatives of the Republican Chamber Ron Estes, Tracey Mann, Derek Schmidt and the Delegation’s Lone Democrat Sharice Davids.

These represent much of Wichita, where the flight originated.

Moran said that at a press conference shortly after midnight on Thursday he was familiar with the flight route, after putting in North -American pressure to start last year.

President Donald Trump Journalists reported about the previous Thursday, saying that there were no survivors of the fall.

Trump members New cabinetThe Secretary of Transport, Sean Duffy and the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, promised to find Swift responses to families who regret their loved ones after the fall.

Representative Don Beyer, D-Va., Representing Arlington County, where the airport is located, in a similar way, said he would work on accountability.

“As a local representative, I want families to know that our office is available to serve -in any way we can at this moment of sentence and transition and loss,” Beyer said in another press conference on Thursday morning .

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“And, in addition, it would just be taken into account that we are deeply grateful for the people who risked life last night in a notice of a moment and spent the whole night in the river on the ice and the wind, serving -us “.

Beyer added that through the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) probe in the fall, “we must ensure that, at the federal level and with the support of Virginia, Maryland and DC, we do everything can assure – I know that doesn’t happen again. “

American Airlines has said that 60 passengers and four crew members were on board the plane, and the airline encouraged any loved one to look for information to call numbers In place.

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North -Americans they are researching Why Black Hawk’s helicopter flew to the descending plane, Duffy told journalists.

“I would say the helicopter was aware that there was a plane in the area,” he said.

Hegseth said the helicopter was managed by an experienced crew and was subject to an “annual competency training flight”.

Duffy told journalists that while the collision was a highly unusual and tragic event, the two mutual patterns of the two planes were not atypical.